I’m as constant as Constantinople. Now that’s some…

Turks have long admired the sultan, Mehmet II, for his military triumphs, especially his capture of Constantinople, now known as Istanbul, in 1453.

— Stephen Kinzer

If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“The capital of the Ottoman Empire, Constantinople, still carried the name given to it in the year 330, when it became the imperial capital…

— Louis Farshee

In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.

— Will Durant

Since the building of Constantinople, and the removal of the seat of government to that city, no political quarrel separated Rome from Egypt. Pagan…

— Samuel Sharpe

Seldom can two such epoch-making events have occurred in successive years as happened then. In 1453 the Turks stormed Constantinople and finally destroyed the…

— Frederic G. Kenyon

Infidel: In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.

— Ambrose Bierce

Environment is a sculptor - a painter. If we had been born in Constantinople, then most of us would have said: 'There is no…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

— Mark Twain

The pastoral labours of the archbishop of Constantinople provoked and gradually united against him two sorts of enemies; the aspiring clergy, who envied his…

— Edward Gibbon

In all times and in all places--in Constantinople, northwestern Zambia, Victorian England, Sparta, Arabia, . . . medieval France,Babylonia, . . . Carthage, Mahenjo-Daro,…

— Louise J. Kaplan

“The Ottoman Turks were about to capture Constantinople, unleashing on Italy a migration of fleeing scholars with bundles of manuscripts containing the ancient wisdom…

— Walter Isaacson

The Government should take a firm, bold line. This delay - this uncertainty, by which, abroad, we are losing our prestige and our position,…

— Queen Victoria

Constantinople was the principal seat and fortress of Arianism; and, in a long interval of forty years, the faith of the princes and prelates…

— Edward Gibbon

Always have the fear of God in your heart, and remember that God is always with you, everywhere, whether you are walking or sitting.

— Gennadius of Constantinople